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I recommend to everyone to take their 12 words, write em 3 times on a piece of paper, cut it into 9 pieces and hide them in places only you’d know


So nobody will be able to recover them if you are hit by a bus or develop dementia?

This problem is harder if you want to pass on your crypto after you can't use them anymore.


That's exactly right

If you want to enable recovery, you should give ownership of things to smart contracts, which enable things like succession rules and a heatbeat checkin etc.

Public/private keys are not designed to solve that kind of governance problem.


or just use a more user friendly and accessible currency and banking system




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